Aelius Gallus

Aelius Gallus ( the praenomen is unknown) was a Roman prefect of Egypt, BC moved to Marib with the Legio X Fretensis to 25/24. The attempt to take the city by siege failed. The campaign was the conquest of the entire Arab world, especially in order to control the Africa trade and to open up other avenues for the India trade. Due to the failed projects, the area remained Arabia Felix.

The friend of Aelius geographer Strabo describes in his geography repeatedly and in detail the campaign he reports in addition also of a boat expedition from Alexandria up the Nile on Heliopolis and Thebes (where you heard drown out the Memnonkoloss and the Valley of the Kings visited ) to Syene and the borders of Ethiopia. On this trip Aelius was accompanied not only by Strabo, but by a lot of friends and soldiers, including from the Egyptian priests Chaeremon, " which was as bouncers and ignorant most ridiculed ".

Flavius ​​Josephus reported that Aelius was supported on his campaign Arabia by Herod the Great with 500 elite warriors.

The failed campaign of Aelius Gallus was narrated in a short note in Cassius Dio.

Without naming of Gallus ' names and the failure he is also in Augustus ' Res Gestae Divi report mentioned deeds Augusti.

During the unhappy campaign of Aelius Publius Petronius the knight seems to have successfully continued into office in Egypt. At the latest after the failure of Arabia expedition, he is in the year 25 BC, his successor as prefect of Egypt.